The best way to stop the mass murder of students and teachers is to do these things: First, repeal all laws or policies that now require schools to be “gun free zones”. In each school, seek out teachers who have concealed carry permits and any more who would be willing to get a permit. Then give them extra training in shooting proficiency, the law and morality of using deadly force, and allow them to be armed in school. Require that their weapons be carried on their person at all times, not in a purse sitting in the corner. Allow any visitors who have concealed carry permits to carry inside the school when they visit.

Then, there is a reasonable chance that lives can be saved if a would-be murderer starts pointing a gun and/or shooting at people. Think of how many lives could have been saved since the Columbine shootings in 1999 with this plan. I'm sure all of those lives could not have been saved in the last 23 years, but I know a significant percentage of them could have been saved in each case by just one determined, armed teacher, visitor or college student who happened to be in the right place at the right time!

One of the duties of every school is to protect our children. Therefore, I believe that our schools are accessories to murder or at least are complicit in every one of those murders! If I was a teacher I would be armed (concealed) at all times. I don't care what federal law or school policy might say. We humans have only one life, and I would make every attempt to defend my students and any others who were threatened. I believe most teachers would also have that attitude.

The nation of Israel requires its teachers to be armed and well trained in the use of their weapon. Since that practice went into effect, very few students have been harmed while in school. Why can't we be that smart? Our country and our school systems should be run by people who think logically instead of the touchy-feelie emotional people who run things now and want to blame inanimate objects for crime instead of the people who commit those crimes. The people who lost loved ones in Columbine, Utah, Connecticut, and many other places can put most of the blame on the fact that schools are now “gun free zones”. Any fool can tell that, if these laws are obeyed, there is no way to protect anyone from a determined mass murderer. That is simply not permissible. We must repeal those law(s) or find some brave teachers, college students and other school personnel who are willing to ignore those laws or policies and be armed in a concealed fashion at all times. No government has the right to deny anyone’s ability to use the force needed to defend themselves and/or our children while they are in school.

I know that the Federal Government has our school systems throttled around the neck because the feds have the power to withhold funds if school systems don’t comply with federal law. We should demand that our school systems implement a plan to defend our children. All they have now is running, hiding, praying, or begging for their lives! Parents and other community members should attend school board meetings and demand that the system put a plan into effect which will effectively protect the students and employees! If the school’s answer is to post an armed guard at the main door, that won’t stop much. That guard would simply be the first one killed. If the plan is to put metal detectors at the door(s) the person manning a metal detector would be the first one killed. Only posting armed guards in plain clothes in every major area of schools could approach being as effective as simply arming the teachers who would agree to do it. Those trained armed guards would add a lot of cost that we can’t afford to school systems’ budgets. The most cost-effective way to protect our children is to use common sense and allow teachers who want to be armed to get proper training and carry their concealed handguns in school.

That picture really helps make my point. Thanks for finding it. After reading my editorial on the blog, I see I should have edited it one more time to correct some typos and punctuation. I know most school systems will refuse to implement this plan, but I hope we all will attend our system's next board meeting, detail this plan and insist that the school system implement a plan that can be effective in defending our children, even if it is not this plan.- Old Greybeard

Rather than attempt to arm the liberal wimps at the government "schools," why are people not seeing that the "school" is the problem on every level? Why would people who understand the necessity of armed self defense not make other arrangements for the education - as well as the safety of their most precious babies?

Get the children OUT of the government indoctrination and killing camps.

Ther problem with arming teachers here in Amerika is that it will never fly. Teachers, as a group, are way too leftist and collectivist in their mindset to agree to that. Look who was leading the charge in Wisconsin against the governor when he was trying to save that state from the greed of the public employee unions. I see the same type of problem here in my little community in SW Oregon. They are openly hostile to any police presence on campus or patrolling around the middle and high school, yet they lament the rampant drug use in the parking lots. I taught community college part time for over 20 years. I taught at a private school for over 3 years after retiring as a cop. The teaching profession is basically a leftist matriarchy sprinkled with metrosexual girlie men. Most of them don't know which end of the gun the bullet comes out of and they don't want to.

Mike: Accuracy being important, the pic going around the net that you print is not of an Israeli teacher. Israeli teachers are not armed at all times, as this image and the various captions photoshopped onto it suggest.

Further, there are many misconception about Israel's attitude and laws concerning gun ownership:

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Advice on child rearing from my son.

Everyone should grow up with simulated equipment from a heavy weapons platoon. It gives you a more well rounded education and an appreciation for the finer things in life. -- Sergeant Matthew Vanderboegh, United States Army.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.